Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini / WhatsApp Videos

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#138727 14-Jan-2014 21:16

A few family members have recently purchased Samsung Galaxy S3 Minis and use WhatsApp.
When they send videos (20secs for example) they can only select 10secs of the video to send.

I have WhatsApp on my iPhone and am able send longer videos than 10secs.

Is there a way of allowing more than 10secs on there phones? One family member has an old Android phone and are able to send longer than 10secs.

n4

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#967184 14-Jan-2014 22:30

I would guess its the size, not length, of the videos that matters. This would depend on the resolution and encoding on each phone?

Samsung Note20 Ultra, on 2degrees

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#967404 15-Jan-2014 10:29

Possibly

I've had a look around to see if you can reduce the resolution of the video but couldn't find any option for that.

Its just weird a much older Android phone works fine but not these S3 Mini's

n4

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#967486 15-Jan-2014 12:17

Yes sorry I know nothing about Whatsapp. But newer high end phones will tend to take higher resolution and higher frame rate video, which will therefore be bigger.

Samsung Note20 Ultra, on 2degrees

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#967488 15-Jan-2014 12:20

Thats what I was thinking too but I have an iPhone 5 which you'd assume would take better videos and I can send through 10sec+ videos fine over Whatsapp

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#967709 15-Jan-2014 18:21

An alternative is to install whatsapp+
Download here - http://www.whatsapp-plus.net/download.php
The XDA thread has been removed, I think once the donate version popped up. There are some youtube vids going over the additional features http://youtu.be/Dn5GpyCczfk

This is a moddified version of whatsapp which allows several additional features like themes plus also options to change photo and video limits.

Not ideal perhaps, but a possible workaround!